I dunno, I think that the real reason Real Player died out is more or less due to a lower quality program. True, Microsoft's bundling may have caused Real Player usage to decline prematurely, but it was inevitable that it would die out sooner or later.
Microsoft does have a point in that there probably are a large number of fraudulent claims from msfreepc.com. Perhaps they could just do some sanity checking of the Lindows clains (no, 123 Fake St. doesn't exist). On the other hand, if Microsoft did agree to allow for this, then I suppose they deserve to suffer.
It's about time that someone stands up and fights back against these blatant abuses of the DMCA. The fact is that this law can be so easily abused, and we should get the DMCA repealed. It should be made way more difficult to get a subpoena than just having some lawyer write a nastygram.
Id agree with everyone else that Fox really screwed up by canceling the show. Perhaps they just now realized that the DVD is selling like hotcakes and that its getting good ratings on Adult Swim. Either way, it was probably a combination of the ever-changing Fox timeslot and the controversy of the show that got Fox to cancel it in the first place.
If I'm not mistaken, the intention of these laws was to lock up the so-called "script kiddies" and such who maliciously broke into and destroyed/exploited computer systems. This guy just published a vulnerability to the company's users, and while it may have damaged their reputation, they certainly didn't have much to begin with after not fixing that flaw.
I guess this goes to show that after all ICANN does indeed have some authority over Verisign. Maybe ICANN isn't the pointless and powerless body we though they were.
I don't see how anyone will accept electronic voting systems as insecure as this. Diebold should be as open in security vunerabilities as many open source projects are and support full public disclosure along with prompt patching.
I got one of Verisigns renewel notices too, and I did have to read it carefully to find out it was to transfer my domain to them. I fear that many didn't read the fine print and fell for this scam. Now all we need to do is to sue them for their horrible sitefinder "service."
This case brought forth by Kazaa is interesting in that it involves a number of issues such as the enforceability of EULAs and weather or not the RIAA is in essence allowed to act as its own law enforcement unit.
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I dunno, I think that the real reason Real Player died out is more or less due to a lower quality program. True, Microsoft's bundling may have caused Real Player usage to decline prematurely, but it was inevitable that it would die out sooner or later.
Microsoft does have a point in that there probably are a large number of fraudulent claims from msfreepc.com. Perhaps they could just do some sanity checking of the Lindows clains (no, 123 Fake St. doesn't exist). On the other hand, if Microsoft did agree to allow for this, then I suppose they deserve to suffer.
It's about time that someone stands up and fights back against these blatant abuses of the DMCA. The fact is that this law can be so easily abused, and we should get the DMCA repealed. It should be made way more difficult to get a subpoena than just having some lawyer write a nastygram.
Id agree with everyone else that Fox really screwed up by canceling the show. Perhaps they just now realized that the DVD is selling like hotcakes and that its getting good ratings on Adult Swim. Either way, it was probably a combination of the ever-changing Fox timeslot and the controversy of the show that got Fox to cancel it in the first place.
Besides letting greedy corporations run our root servers, why not have them all run Windows? The TV told my Windows can do more with less.
If I'm not mistaken, the intention of these laws was to lock up the so-called "script kiddies" and such who maliciously broke into and destroyed/exploited computer systems. This guy just published a vulnerability to the company's users, and while it may have damaged their reputation, they certainly didn't have much to begin with after not fixing that flaw.
It seems that IBMs system is just a specialized P2P file sharing/serving network, not really anything new and "revolutionary."
I guess this goes to show that after all ICANN does indeed have some authority over Verisign. Maybe ICANN isn't the pointless and powerless body we though they were.
Why would anyone need anything other than Slashdot? SCO is about the only thing in the news these days!
I don't see how anyone will accept electronic voting systems as insecure as this. Diebold should be as open in security vunerabilities as many open source projects are and support full public disclosure along with prompt patching.
I got one of Verisigns renewel notices too, and I did have to read it carefully to find out it was to transfer my domain to them. I fear that many didn't read the fine print and fell for this scam. Now all we need to do is to sue them for their horrible sitefinder "service."
This case brought forth by Kazaa is interesting in that it involves a number of issues such as the enforceability of EULAs and weather or not the RIAA is in essence allowed to act as its own law enforcement unit.